China’s growth rate remains impressive, even if on the decline. The country’s continuing economic gains owe much to the Chinese state’s (1) still considerable ability to direct the activity of critical economic enterprises and sectors such as finance, (2) commitment to policies of economic expansion, and (3) flexibility in economic strategy. It appears that China’s leaders view their recently adopted One Belt, One Road Initiative as key to the country’s future economic vitality. However, there are reasons to believe that this strategy is seriously flawed, with working people, including in China, destined to pay a high price for its shortcomings.

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The U.S. Government is definitely set upon winning WW III, not avoiding WW III. Nuclear weapons are thus being built and deployed by the U.S. Government with the intention to conquer Russia, and this goal has become NATO’s mission, and its only remaining core function, though this fact is not publicly acknowledged.

While Western powers present Ukraine as a young democracy, Yuriy Lutsenko, prosecutor general of Ukraine makes shocking lawless statements. Opposition journalists call him for resign, but Lutsenko thinks everything is OK.

“There is now a clear and present danger of an imminent and great big famine engulfing Yemen: much bigger than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives,” UN humanitarian chief tells.

Bolsonaro’s harsh neo-liberal policies will fail to restore growth to Brazil’s economy and will entail an all-out assault on living standards. Bolsonaro intends to rely on the police and the army to physically crush any resistance to the savage attacks on the population that he has in store should he win.